Medical snippets #5: Proper exercises

‘Moderate Exercise is requisite to be used during the Time of drinking these Waters, to raise (as I am informed by the Learned) proper Ferments in the Humours, and to promote their due Secretions, to attenuate the Fluids, and brace up the Fibres, and give the Nerves a better Spring. Proper Exercises are Walking, Bowling, Dancing, but especially Riding; all which moderately used, will facilitate a due Secretion of the peccant Humours, particularly through the Kidneys, […]’

Henry Eyre, A brief account of the Holt waters, containing one hundred and twelve eminent cures, perform’d by the use of the famous mineral waters at Holt, (near Bath) in Wiltshire (1731)